Afghanistan Archive
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My work on Gino Strada’s Emergency War Victim’s hospital in Kabul was recently published in on an on-line magazine called War Shooter. You can see the spread by clicking HERE. Have a look around. There’s some amazing work.
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While I was in Afghanistan I met Hanifa, pictured above. I was doing a project on women who self-immolate. There is a post earlier on the blog about it, but it is only now that I am getting around to finally editing the full project. Hanifa is nine years old. She was […]
It looks as though the Korean hostages may be freed today after a breakthrough in talks occurred yesterday between Taliban and South Korean officials. A five-point deal was struck, wherein namely the Koreans agreed to pull their troops out of the country by the end of the year and agreed not to send any more […]
I had dinner with a friend who has been covering the news here for three years. He had just come back from a story up north, and spent the last few days deep in the Korean hostage crisis. There is an added tension in some regard for those of us here working in Afghanistan because […]
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While I was waiting for my Afghan visa in Delhi, a friend of mine mentioned in passing something about a widow’s village in Herat province in western Afghanistan. As soon as I arrived in Kabul I began asking around if anyone knew where it was. It took me nearly two weeks to finally […]
Self-immolation in Afghanistan
17 Comments Published July 30th, 2007 in News, Middle East, Afghanistan© Anne Holmes
Amine, pictured above, is 16 years old. She was forced to marry at the age of 14 but has many problems with her husband and his family. She doused herself with oil and set herself on fire to protest her unwanted marriage but her father says that she must return to her husband […]
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I spent the day at the border with Iran near Herat in Western Afghanistan, observing the constant trickle of deportees arriving empty-handed. They were all men, mostly in their twenties and thirties, who had been arrested and jailed before being forced to board a bus headed for their country of origin. All the […]
